A joint investigation by 404 Media and WIRED, based on data recovered from a physically removed Flock camera, found that its on-device software explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, bicycles, and license plates. Separately, Washington DC’s police union says the Metropolitan Police Department used Flock data to track officers under Internal Affairs investigation without their knowledge. [More]
So, what else could they be using it for?
Hey, it’s for the greater good.
[Via Henry Bowman]
Would I rather be stabbed in the chest by a known enemy or stabbed in the back by a supposed friend?
Hmmmm
Some of these “choices” would give Jack Benny pause.
Could this be why the Founders warned us away from political parties?
Should this have been posted here?
A joint investigation by 404 Media and WIRED, based on data recovered from a physically removed Flock camera, found that its on-device software explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, bicycles, and license plates.
A surprise to precisely no one who’s been paying attention to Flock Safety and their products.
So, the cameras detect people. Once the images — and limited video footage the CEO says the cameras can gather — are uploaded into the database, there’s nothing to prevent someone from running a facial recognition scan, body composition scan, gait analysis (if someone is walking), and identify every person who ever passed through the camera’s field of vision.
“It’s just reads license plates.” Uh-huh. Sure it does.
That’s the part that bugs me most about their system: It all feeds into one massive database — the same database for private-contracted Flock subscribers (businesses, HOAs, etc.) and public-contracted ones (cities, counties, police departments, etc.) — and once it’s there any number or manner of analyses can be done on any image from any camera, behind closed doors, with basically no auditing and no records…
… and no warrants required.
And that should concern everyone.